Christianity’s big problem is that God is a lot more subtle than had been taught for the previous 1700 years. Science explains most of what happens in this world, not God, at least at the most immediate level. Christianity was caught off guard by the sheer power of modern scientific explanation. It’s this crisis, with the resulting doubt in God, that has fueled the world-historical wave of atheistic socialism. Simple people were overwhelmed and left defenseless because their intellectual superiors had yet to come up with a reply to this new onslaught. It was like a movie where the bad guys roll out their super weapon and the good guys are momentarily routed. In our case momentarily means a few hundred years while Christianity searches itself and refines itself and climbs to an understanding that is higher than the wave that is rolling against it.
Actually, science texts I have back to 1848 pay homage to The Creator, whose works they sought to understand. It is only later that scientific hubris decides that The Almighty isn't necessary because we're so smart. Darwin was a step along the way, but just one.
Actually, I don’t think Christianity as a whole had ant conflict with science. The problem with Galileo, for example, was not his opinion the earth and the sun - which he was not the first one to think in any case - but that he used this to support his particular cosmological outlook, which was one that no longer considered man to be the crown of creation. So it’s not science per se, except in the case of a few American fundamentalists, but the philosophical or world view espoused by scientists who abandon the Judeo-Chrisitan or even Greco-Roman philosophical basis.
When Christianity had a firm philosophical foundation,it could deal with this, but unfirtunately the destruction of Christian knowledge and tradition , combined with the rejection of Western thought by the educational world, left both churches and secular humanists with no way to combat the distortion and misuse of science.